Cocktail Talk: Suddenly a Corpse
There hasn’t been any Cocktail Talk on here in forever, thanks to me going to Italy and making videos and being generally an anti-literary bum on a tramp steamer. So to speak. But here are a couple quotes for your Friday from a fine bit of pulping (lawyer pulping even, as the main character’s a legal man), a little pocket book called Suddenly a Corpse, by Harold Q. Masur (which you’d think would have to be a pseudonym, right? But no, it’s just one of the greatest names ever). Tough stuff, but then again, so are you:
She had another pull of rye that would have knocked me kicking. She might have been drinking water for all the effect it had. Her stomach, I thought, must have been installed by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
For a moment there I was busier than a drunk on a tightrope.
–Harold Q. Masur, Suddenly a Corpse
Tags: Cocktail Talk, Harold Q. Masur, Rye, Suddenly a Corpse
May 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I will spend my day contemplating “busier than a drunk on a tightrope.” Which is way more interesting than how I was going to spend my day, originally.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
[...] it’s a fine time for a quote by Hal Masur (who in his full name is Harold Q. Masur, as seen in this post about Suddenly a Corpse), from a book in his Scott Jordan series. Scott’s a lawyer, see, when that meant more than a bad [...]